Posted by:
KevColubrid
at Mon Sep 3 22:10:12 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by KevColubrid ]
I didn't mean to come off sounding as hot headed as I did. I am a snake lover at heart, I have been all my life. When I see any animal killed out of ignorance or fear, it does get to me. But at the same time, I ignored several important points. I did not know that it wasn't you specifically doing the killing. I ignored the fact that the pattern on the snake was aberrant, so it probably wouldn't look like the "normal" snake pattern presented in most books. I'll offer the same suggestion most of the people here have offered. Learn about the snakes in your area, teach your kids to leave them alone, respect them, and let them be. In most cases, when you see a snake, they're going to high tail it out of there as quick as they can. It's a cliche, but it's also true, they're more afraid of you than you are of them. Snakes are scared of people, and they definately don't want to go out of their way to bite something a couple hundred times their size Anyway, live and learn. And I do want to say thank you for posting, what you did is better than the thousands of other people who kill snakes every year and don't care about finding identity, the "the only good snake is a dead snake" ideology, which we all hear far too often in the general public. So thank you for posting, your post shows that you care, and you've got the right idea. Again, sorry if I sounded hot headed.
Kevin
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- what kind of snake is this please? - sjmudjet, Mon Aug 27 11:51:00 2007
- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - chrish, Mon Aug 27 14:39:43 2007
- Tough call - CrimsonKing, Mon Aug 27 17:29:50 2007
- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - josh1990, Mon Aug 27 22:40:20 2007
- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - chrish, Mon Aug 27 22:58:01 2007
- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - DMong, Mon Aug 27 23:12:52 2007

- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - Bigfoot, Tue Aug 28 00:28:50 2007
- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - Clydesdale, Tue Aug 28 15:16:40 2007
- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - superdave1781, Thu Aug 30 22:34:03 2007
- Yep... - Fish_Demon, Fri Aug 31 01:55:40 2007
- RE: Yep... - superdave1781, Fri Aug 31 21:48:58 2007

- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - KevColubrid, Fri Aug 31 09:12:52 2007
- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - jrreptil, Fri Aug 31 17:36:23 2007
- why did you kill it? - goregrind, Sat Sep 1 06:04:21 2007
- Let's be pragmatic here, shall we? - chrish, Sat Sep 1 10:35:34 2007
- For sjmudjet - Bigfoot, Sat Sep 1 23:50:30 2007
- Hey, Sjmudjet - Shaky, Sun Sep 2 17:42:45 2007
- RE: what kind of snake is this please? - bkleinman, Mon Sep 3 13:39:17 2007
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